Health Care Assistant – Weekend Nights

Exemplar Health Care; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

Wagestream earnings access

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for weekend night shifts at Lepton Heights care home in Huddersfield.

You will support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives, with duties including personal care, mealtimes, health observations and encouraging participation in social activities while upholding dignity and respect.

No two days are the same, and you’ll join a caring team that values fun, integrity and teamwork, with induction and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience and qualifications aren’t essential for this role.
• Must be able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations.
• Energetic and outgoing with a positive, can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• supporting people with their personal care
• assisting people at meal times
• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
• encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Caring

Kindness

Understanding

Calm demeanor

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant – Weekend Nights

Care home: Lepton Heights

Location: 36 Wakefield Road, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield, HD8 0BG

Contract type: 8.00pm – 8.00am or 10.00pm – 6.00am

Rate: £12.71 per hour

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as a Health Care Assistant at Lepton Heights care home in Huddersfield.

As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.

About Exemplar Health Care

Lepton Heights is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

Lepton Heights supports adults living with complex needs, such as acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Health Care Assistants support people to live their best lives, whatever that looks like to them.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• supporting people with their personal care
• assisting people at meal times
• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
• encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records.

About you

We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• caring, kind, understanding and calm
• able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
• energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
• a great listener and communicator.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday with Wagestream
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.